Mae West
(1893–1980)

American actress, playwright, screenwriter, and sex symbol; pen name "Jane Mast"

Mae West

Works edit

Plays edit

  • The Ruby Ring (1921)
  • The Hussy (1922, unproduced)
  • Sex (1926)
  • The Drag (never opened)
  • The Wicked Age
  • Pleasure Man
  • The Constant Sinner
  • Diamond Lil (1928)
  • Frisco Kate (1930, unproduced)
  • Loose Women (1933, performed in 1935 under title Ladies By Request)
  • Clean Beds (1936)

Film edit

  • Night After Night (1932, rewrote her own scenes)
  • She Done Him Wrong (1933)
  • I'm No Angel (1933)

Books edit

  • Goodness Had Nothing to Do With It (autobiography; 1959; Prentice-Hall)

Works about West edit

  • 1967 The Wit and Wisdom of Mae West, illustrated collection by Joseph Weintraub's; published by G.P. Putnam's Sons

Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1929.


This author died in 1980, so works by this author are in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 43 years or less. These works may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

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Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were legally published within the United States (or the United Nations Headquarters in New York subject to Section 7 of the United States Headquarters Agreement) before 1964, and copyright was not renewed.


This author died in 1980, so works by this author are in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 43 years or less. These works may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

It is imperative that contributors search the renewal databases and ascertain that there is no evidence of a copyright renewal before using this license. Failure to do so will result in the deletion of the work as a copyright violation.

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